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I’ve been looking at ev tariffs while waiting for my Enyaq to be built and I’m baffled by all the different prices. For example my current supplier British Gas offer a lower off peak rate but that’s offset by a higher daytime rate plus a higher daily standing charge so I have no idea whether I would be better off or worse. My mileage is at most 15 to 20 miles per day. Has anyone who does a similar sort of miles a day managed to sort it out? ?
Edit: Forgot to add we wouldn’t be using any electricity during the cheap rate time other than charging the car
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What’s your current electricity a day?
if you estimate 3 miles a kWh you’d need between 5 and 7 a day for your car.
on intelligent octopus go that’s a max of about 52p (7.5p)
If they give you a charging schedule during the day you’ll also get cheap elec for your other use, so showers, washing etc will be cheaper then too.
do the sums for your current tariff and your potential, but I’d hazard a guess you will be cheaper shifting
I’ve been looking at ev tariffs while waiting for my Enyaq to be built and I’m baffled by all the different prices. For example my current supplier British Gas offer a lower off peak rate but that’s offset by a higher daytime rate plus a higher daily standing charge so I have no idea whether I would be better off or worse. My mileage is at most 15 to 20 miles per day. Has anyone who does a similar sort of miles a day managed to sort it out? ?
We’re exactly the same, Enyaq due May, we’re with British Gas and will only charge at home for around 4000 miles each year. Another spanner in the works, British Gas currently offer Peak Save Sundays when electricity is half price between 11am and 4pm.
Same as us, British Gas. Think we might just wait until April and see what the tariffs are like then. To make things worse BG are saying our smart meter is no good because it’s only giving monthly readings and it needs to be 1/2 hourly, BG fitted the bloody thing as well ?
Trying to change energy supplier is difficult. Some are totally opaque like Octopus.
They cannot give you a quote because I am not yet a customer. I asked I wont be a customer if you cant tell me the tariffs, to decide whether its competitive. Eventually the request was escalated further up the helpdesk and they did manage a quote which was the same as British Gas. The Octopus Intelligent for EV,S was only a penny less than British Gas. It was not worth changing.
But yeah Octopus is totally opaque pricing unless you are a customer already.
I get more info on Octopus rates here, than I do from the company!!
Like everything else, the energy companies are changing the prices all the time. Give it a couple of months and they will be upside down again and not sure which is the cheapest.
I’ve done a basic calculation to see if it’s worth switching to an EV tariff. For us, as long as British Gas keep their Peak Save Sunday half price electric deal, I don’t think it’s worth the hassle. The calculations are basic and I’m very happy for people to correct me if I’m wrong, it’s a learning curve for a lot of us.
We would only do 4000 miles worth of charging at home, the rest would be public chargers.
The following is based on 4000 miles at 3.2 KW per mile efficiency = 1250 kw usage per year.
Current BG price 25.1p = £313.75
Peak Save Sunday 12.55p = £156.87
EV overnight tariff 8.99p £111.25
With the EV tariff, we would also have increased daily standing charge and increased daytime cost per KWh.
As I’ve said, please feel free to correct my figures, I’m new to this.
EDIT: I may very well be wrong as these figures seem very cheap.
I can’t fault Octopus at all, I got smart meters fitted by them as soon as I got the car, then waited months for the OHME Home Pro to be fitted (due to needing permission from HA) and switched to Octupus Tracker in November, not seen rates above 20p/kWh since.
Just charge it whenever it needs charging and averages out around 16.5p/kWh since we joined.
Costs me less than 4p/mile, and no expensive day rates.
Current: 2023 MG4 Trophy (soon to get rid)
Ordered: VW ID4 Match Pro 210kw 77kWh [Blue Dusk] Expected August!Many have said that you should time expensive domestic use to match your charging times, easier if you have a variable time rate like Octopus as the savings will build up.
Whether a tariff suits you also depends on what you’re doing through the day. If everyone goes to work, then a cheap night rate balanced by an expensive day rate works, if you’re at home and can do the washing through the day, that day rate makes a difference.
It’s horrible having to work out what’s better and isn’t helped when you ask on an EV group and get a mass of people giving you codes for referrals from people who work all day.
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